Jianyun Xu Quotes & Sayings

To glimpse one's own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a place East of the Sun, West of the Moon - the homegoing that needs no home, like that waterfall on the upper Suli Gad that turns to mist before touching the earth and rises once again into the sky. — Peter Matthiessen

Someone who loves you, will act as sibling rather than a lover. — Olivie Boyke

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. - George Bernanos — Georges Bernanos

We are wooed, then mocked, plagued like Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, by a wound refusing heal. — Patti Smith

To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke. — David Salle

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell — Will Rogers

I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder. — Karen Abbott

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts - it's when those who shouldn't, do. — Pauline Kael

With Marvel and DC, you're working with their pre-established fictional universes and characters. At those places, you're working with characters who will outlive you and maybe your children and your childern's children. Batman will outlive me, Spider-Man will outlive me, the Avengers will outlive me, and so it goes. — Grant Morrison

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. — George Orwell

No flip flops for black dudes. I don't care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach. — Kanye West